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Some architectures like arm64 and s390 require USER_DS to be set for kernel threads to access user address space, which is the whole purpose of kthread_use_mm, but other like x86 don't. That has lead to a huge mess where some callers are fixed up once they are tested on said architectures, while others linger around and yet other like io_uring try to do "clever" optimizations for what usually is just a trivial asignment to a member in the thread_struct for most architectures. Make kthread_use_mm set USER_DS, and kthread_unuse_mm restore to the previous value instead. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Tested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org> Cc: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Cc: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com> Cc: Zhi Wang <zhi.a.wang@intel.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200404094101.672954-7-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.